On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote:
> On mar, 2008-12-16 at 13:57 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Description : Tools for handling DICOM files, with conversion
>> from proprietary formats.
>>
>> Unix, Mac and Windows (Cygwin) command line utilities for creating,
>> modifying, dumping and validating files of DICOM attributes, and
>> conversion of proprietary image formats to DICOM. Can handle older
>> ACR/NEMA format data, and some proprietary versions of that such as
>> SPI.
> What are DICOM, ACR, NEMA, SPI?
=O
Those are extremely well know file format in the medical imaging
world. Next time you go get an MRI / CT, ask for your DICOM CD with
your images (in most countries, you do not get films anymore).
ACR-NEMA used to refer to the previous standard (before DICOM 1993).
And SPI is a proprietary format (used by Siemens/Philips) in pre 1993
PACS system.
--
Mathieu